The NCAA is far from the only sports rights-holder to fret about how to control online media access to its games. The New York Times has a long piece today about how the major leagues are struggling with the issue, too. The problem, in a nutshell, is...
This paper discusses the financial health of National Football League. The league has certainly earned its current position on the top of the American sports heap. TV revenue has been the engine driving the league's ascension to the most popular and most-watched sport in America. Another equally important result of...
Collect ten points for each question answered correctly. Answers on page 90 (If you score 80 or better, you are a baseball expert, 70 or better, superior; between 60 and 70, good, and between 40 and 60, average. 1. There are only three players who have hit 200...
RICK SUTCLIFFE STOOD ON THE fine green grass outside his Lee's Summit home in Missouri, smiling and waving and looking stronger than he should. When he commanded a major league pitcher's mound, they called him the Red Baron. Now his red hair had faded, but the 6-foot-7 physique...
SINCE 1900, THERE HAVE BEEN 19 DIFFERENT MAJOR LEAGUE PITCHERS WHO HAVE LEO THEIR LEAGUE IN WINS, STRIKE-OUTS and ERA in the same season, a feat that has been accomplished 30 times. Grover Alexander did it four times while Walter Johnson and Sandy Koufax achieved the feat three times. AMERICAN...
IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN WHETHER OR not the 3,060 base hits Craig Biggio banged out during a 20-year major league career stretching from 1988 through 2007 assure him of first ballot election to the Hall of Fame when he's eligible a half decade from now. It's indisputable...
NATE McLOUTH CARRIES HIMSELF as unpretentiously as anyone in the Pirates clubhouse. A starting center field job hasn't changed that. Neither did a major league-best 19-game hitting streak to begin the season. Nor did finishing April as one of baseball's best. Neither will continued success, which is something...
"ELSTON HOWARD. HE COULD do it all. He could catch. He could play first base and the outfield. "He was a solid batter who could hit for power and drive in runs. He had all the tools. "It really makes me wonder sometimes where the New...
ANGELS MANAGER MIKE SCIOSCIA HADN'T HEARD THE NEWS THAT THE MAN WHO replaced him behind the plate with the Dodgers, Mike Piazza, had announced his retirement last May. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Scioscia nodded affirmatively when asked if he thought Piazza had Hall of Fame credentials. ...
THE JOB OF A MAJOR LEAGUE HITTING COACH IS, OF COURSE, TO TEACH HITTING. BUT IN the worst of times, like the Brewers experienced early in the season, it's also to play a role as an offensive psychologist. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Brewers' Jim Skaalen finds himself...
Players With Hitting Streaks of 30 or More GamesTHROUGH THE 2007 SEASON, THERE HAVE BEEN 43 HITTING STREAKS THATREACHED 30 CONSECUTIVE GAMES ACCOMPLISHED BY 41 different players--only Ty Cobb and George Sisler had two skeins of 30 or more games.It should be noted that some streaks occurred prior to 1900...
Total points in parentheses 1941 Brooklyn Dodgers: First baseman Doll Camilli (300), center fielder Pete Reiser (183) and pitcher Whitlow Wyatt (151). 1959 Chicago White Sox: Second baseman Nellie Fox (295), shortstop Luis Aparicio (255) and pitcher Early Wynn (123). 1966 Baltimore Orioles: Right...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Matt Brown hardly seemed bothered when the Pacific Coast League entered the top of the ninth trailing the International League by two in the Triple-A All-Star game. "Nobody was down; we had confidence," Brown said. "In the PCL, two runs is nothing. Nobody was...
Lord's yesterday announced a new 50m Twenty20 competition, the English Premier League, which will be played in June from 2010. The two-division competition, which will incorporate promotion and relegation, will include two overseas teams as well as all 18 first- class counties. It is understood that the...
Lord's yesterday announced a new 50m Twenty20 competition, the English Premier League, which will be played in June from 2010. The two-division competition, which will incorporate promotion and relegation, will include two overseas teams as well as all 18 first- class counties. It is understood that the...
SUMMER SALES Transfer news *WIGAN ATHLETIC Manager Steve Bruce has signed the France midfielder Olivier Kapo for the second time in a little more than a year. Bruce went back to his former club Birmingham to capture Kapo for an initial 2.5m, rising to 3.25m, after a...
SUMMER SALES Transfer news *HULL CITY The club has completed the signings of three new players in Peter Halmosi, George Boateng and Tony Warner as they prepare for life in the Premier League. Hungarian winger Halmosi right joins from Plymouth for what is thought to be a...
Lord's yesterday announced a new 50m Twenty20 competition, the English Premier League, which will be played in June from 2010. The two-division competition, which will incorporate promotion and relegation, will include two overseas teams as well as all 18 first- class counties. It is understood that the...
SUMMER SALES Transfer news *WIGAN ATHLETIC Manager Steve Bruce has signed the France midfielder Olivier Kapo for the second time in a little more than a year. Bruce went back to his former club Birmingham to capture Kapo for an initial 2.5m, rising to 3.25m, after a...
SUMMER SALES Transfer news *HULL CITY The club has completed the signings of three new players in Peter Halmosi, George Boateng and Tony Warner as they prepare for life in the Premier League. Hungarian winger Halmosi right joins from Plymouth for what is thought to be a...
